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Friday, February 05, 2010
Vaclav Nedomansky
As you guys know, I think it’s beyond silly that a player’s career totals excludes performance against the toughest competition. That is, the playoffs. Why ignore the playoffs and treat it the same as spring training? It’s stupid and lazy frankly. If you ask a soccer fan how many goals Pele scored, guess what: he’s going to count all his tournaments as well, including the World Cup, the toughest of all competitions of any sport in the world. North American fans would count such an accomplishment as zero for hockey players, as if it didn’t even happen.
Hawerchuk counted it all:
This revised goal-scoring table includes regular season and playoff goals from the NHL, WHA, Russia, Sweden, Finland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, as well as all international tournaments of consequence: the Summit Series, the Canada Cup, the World Cup, the Olympics since 1998 and the World Championships.
All the usual suspects are there, with some jockeying around for position. But, we get one surprise. And, it’s these kinds of surprises that makes the effort to do this worthwhile. Great job to Hawerchuk for doing what historians need to be doing.
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